Meanings
plural depersonalisations
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of depersonalization.
I’ve read that depersonalisation is one of the body’s stress responses. You can’t deal with a situation, so it almost ejects you, makes you feel disconnected.
2015 December 29, Hannah Ewens, “I was terrified when my mind detached from my body – this is depersonalisation”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounemotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
noun(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
nounrepresenting a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindē
- Latindē-
- Englishde-
- Middle Englishpersonal
- Englishpersonal
- Englishpersonalise
- Englishpersonalisation
- Englishdepersonalisation
From de- + personalisation.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with depersonalisation
Cite this entry
depersonalisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/depersonalisation
“depersonalisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/depersonalisation. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “depersonalisation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/depersonalisation.
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